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organizations having connection with the League in varying degree, whose fate required to be determined by the Assembly, namely—(a) The International Bureau for Information and Inquiries regarding Relief to Foreigners. (b) The International Hydrographic Bureau. ( c) The Central International Office for the Control of the Liquor Traffic in Africa. (d) The International Commission for Air Navigation. (e) The International Exhibitions Bureau. (f) The International Relief Union. 22. In practice the control exercised by the League in respect of these Bureaux was limited on the one hand to the right to receive information as to their activities, and on the other, to requests for technical advice as occasion required. 23. All six Bureaux were financially independent of the League, and their budgets were not submitted to any League organ for scrutiny. The severance of their connection with the League will not- in any way affect their working. The Assembly accordingly contented itself with adopting a resolution thanking the Bureaux and other organizations concerned for their collaboration with the League in the past and informing them that their relations with the League must be regarded as coming to an end on the dissolution of that organization. 24. The position of another body which was in a somewhat different position from the foregoing —namely, the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation —also fell to be considered. This Institute, which was placed at the disposal of the League by the French Government in 1924, will, through the dissolution of the League, lose its Governing Body which is ' composed of the members for the time being of the Committee on Intellectual Co-operation of the League of Nations/ A much wider field of intellectual co-operation is now embraced by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization established by the United Nations. Since 1925 France has borne almost the whole expense of the International Institute, and many expressions of thanks were voiced to her for her generosity. These expressions of thanks were embodied in a formal resolution of the Assembly which provided further that there should be transferred to the United Nations certain contingent rights of property in the assets of the Institute which vested in the League in the event of the abolition of the Institute.